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Garci Ordóñez Rodríguez de Montalvo

Spanish writer

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Concha Espina de Serna

Spanish author

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Serafín Álvarez Quintero

Spanish writer

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Joaquín Álvarez Quintero

Spanish writer

Engraving of Miguel de Cervantes, shown with a mustache and beard, wearing a ruffled collar and cloak, based on works by Gregorio Ferro and Fernando Selma.

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Spanish author

Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega

Spanish author

Early 20th century black and white portrait of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, seated and resting his face on his hand.

Federico García Lorca

Spanish writer

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Gil Vicente

Portuguese dramatist

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Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

Inca nobleman, author, and illustrator

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Tirso de Molina

Spanish dramatist

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, oil painting attributed to El Greco; in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga

Spanish soldier and poet

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Alejo Carpentier

Cuban author

Ernesto Sábato, 1985.

Ernesto Sábato

Argentine writer

Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish author

Leopoldo Alas.

Leopoldo Alas

Spanish writer

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Spanish poet

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Antonio Buero Vallejo

Spanish playwright

St. John of the Cross

St. John of the Cross

Spanish mystic

Góngora, oil painting by Velázquez; in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Luis de Góngora

Spanish poet

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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